San Francisco (AP). A new security flaw has been discovered in the iPhone, iPhone and iPod Touch from Apple Inc., raising fears about the vulnerability of these electronic devices to attacks from hackers.
Imperfections were detected in the software that governs these devices after a German security agency warned that criminals could use them to extract confidential information illegally.
Apple, the largest technology company in the world in terms of market value, said Thursday it is working to correct these flaws in a software update that will be distributed shortly to update the devices.
Thanks to these failures, a hacker can place stealthily special software on the devices to cheat on his owner to click on an infected PDF file. The Federal Office for Information Security failures considered critical weaknesses IOS operating system from Apple.
Devices connected to the Internet remain less vulnerable to attack than PCs, but could become a very attractive target for hackers because they store confidential information on bank accounts, emails, calendars, contacts and other data .
Constantly being discovered weaknesses in the software, but the latter is especially alarming because these gaps are already being exploited.
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